[boris]

What if you are a complete, insane, over the top MIKE OLDFIELD freak with leanings toward Bach?

(That's me)

--Boris

[Tall_Texan]

((*sigh*)) Our tax dollars at work.

But he does make a point. I've noticed most fans of rap/hiphop are outgoing, agreeable people who enjoy unusual handshakes and are often interested in whether they can steal your hubcaps or have sex with your date. They also believe in sharing their musical tastes with everyone within a 20-mile radius of wherever they are located.

[Malesherbes]

These are like Chinese fortune cookies; everyone gets something good said about them. It's Barbra Streisand; and I don't mean her music. I mean BS.

[Arkinsaw]

What about someone who is an Electric Light Orchestra fanatic who dearly loves Don Williams and listens to Avril Lavigne a lot and the composer Grieg and has an appreciation for Aaron Copland and whose favorite KISS member is Peter Criss and has both a Johnny Rivers CD and a Glen Campbell tape?

And thats not even including Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.

[Capitalist Eric]

and fans of "gansta" rap are dope-shooting, pistol waiving felons....?

[Billthedrill]

Gets my prize for most banal, shallow, pseudoscientific analysis of the year so far. Gosh - if you like listening to Rage Against The Machine and U2, you might be politically liberal? Whoa...what an insight...

It has the additional benefit of being entirely false. I like classical and especially baroque music, jazz, old psychotropic headphone rock, and death metal. I absolutely assure the good doctor that I am not politically liberal. Nor am I "gregarious" except inasmuch as it tends to mark potential targets. But I do ask people what music they like. Knowing we have dissimilar tastes means I don't have to waste a lot of time shuffling through disks when I break into their cars...

[chicagolady]

Meanwhile, country and religious music fans tend to be cheerful, outgoing, reliable and conventional

IT PEGGED ME PERFECTLY!!

[ContentiousObjector]

what does it say about 50 yearolds who listen to the same rock music their teenaged daughters do?

[JackelopeBreeder]

Personally I go for hard rock/acid rock played at a decibel level guaranteed to sterilize laboratory animals at 200 paces.

[Salvation]

Pinging you and all the Religious Forum music makers.

[garbanzo]

I wonder what this says...samples from my digital music collection.

U2,The Clash, the Donnas, Tantric, J-lo,TATU,Pat Benetar,Johnny Cash, Melissa Etheridge, Marilyn Manson...Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Eminem, David Bowie

[iopscusa]

Hope I never get stuck in a Bomb Shelter with anyone else's "Musica", most music mentioned in this thread is little more than mind-numbing noise, IMHO of course.

[Fish_Keeper]

What is the personality type for classic rock? I can still get into Led Zep, Skynryd, Allman Bros, ZZ Top, Dire Straits and older Aerosmith to name a few. FM pop radio today is terrible IMO, the only one I like is Eminem. (At least his stuff they play on the radio since I don't buy his albums.) Not that I'm a big rap fan, his music just kinda grew on me after a while.

[majordivit]

I enjoy blues, classical, jazzz, folk and opera...but i am not politically liberal. I am a rabid right winger. Conservatives listen to jazz, folk and classical music. This article is designed to praise liberals as the people most likely to appreciate the most advanced types of music.

Who do these people think listens to rap noise or acid rock if not people on the political left?

[SamAdams76]

I like country (especially bluegrass and the older stuff), blues, most rock, a little jazz, and 1970s pop (which is very similar to country music today). I am a big classical music fan but mostly of the "Big 3" (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart) and music from the Baroque and Renaissance period (i.e. Vivaldi; Monteverdi; polyphonic Gregorian Chants).

I can listen to this stuff all at once. I can segue from one of Bach's cantatas to Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffitti" to Hank Williams effortlessly. Drives my wife nuts.

But I hate what passes for todays "pop" music and rap. Except maybe the Beastie Boys. That music is fun...if you are in the right mood.

[Misterioso]

What people find attractive in "music" is in the ear of the beholder. A lot of what is called popular music is just lyrics put to catchy sounds. Most of today's pop sounds are basically interchangeable, I feel, with only an occasional memorable melody. Post-modernism has robbed our kids of the joy of music and this can be laid at the door of twentieth century classical composers. But romanticism is making a comeback evidenced by the success of singers like Norah Jones and Diana Krall and the expanding market of budget classical CDs re-releasing the classics like Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Brahms and Rachmaninoff. And, as a jazz fan, it is heartening to see the resurgence of the sounds of swing amongst the younger set.

[Vinnie]

I'm a soft jazz,soft rock, classical, new age kinda guy.

I do think music preferences do reflect personality.

For instance... rap

Fascinated by shiny objects.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

BTW, I do believe there is something to the Mozart Effect, especially with helping to hard-wire humans' brains from a very early age.

http://parenting-baby.com/Parenting-Baby-Music-Research/index1.html

[Fawnn]

How about somebody who supports Israel, yet loves Wagner overtures? (And 50's rock and roll! Ronnie Dove. Show tunes....) ;)

[putupon]

I only like Polka music but can no longer listen since I'm boycotting all things German.